On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:45 +0100, José Matos wrote:
The wallet
allows you to store passwords in a single place guarded by a master
password. It is extremely effective for what it was
designed.
Examples:
reading PDF password protected documents
accessing web
sites that require a password
amarok
kmail/kontact
konqueror
(ftp/ssh/...)
knetworkmanager
The advantage is that the passwords for these
services are not stored on a plain format and that is really a good
thing.
This is certainly true, but it's very unfortunate that anyone using a
Gnome app under KDE (e.g. Evolution) also has to deal with the
completely separate gnome-keyring system. AFAIK kdewallet and
gnome-keyring do essentially the same thing but they don't talk to each
other. It would be so much better to have a unified system that
supported both APIs, but I guess that's never going to happen.
poc